[reasonattlm]

If a even a small fraction of the effort spent on trying and failing to cope with the realities of degenerative aging was spent on the current crop of plausible approaches to build medical biotechnologies that can reverse degenerative aging, then the world would be a much better place.

Aging has an monstrously high economic cost, and is probably the only area of medicine in which the ratio of that cost to the amount spent on R&D to try to reduce that cost is vanishingly small.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

To be fair, some of the accepted "realities of degenerative aging" basically boil down to lifestyle diseases related to poor diet and lack of exercise throughout life. This certainly seems to be the case here in the west, at least.

Perhaps people should take more responsibility for their own wellbeing instead of gambling on there being some massive medical breakthrough.

[mixmastamyk]

Probably assume it will simply delay the inevitable.

[adrianN]

Death is inevitable, senescence is not. There is not reason to believe that humans can't live in the bodies of healthy twenty year olds until they're killed in an accident or the universe runs out of usable negentropy.

[mixmastamyk]

That would change everything. We’d no longer be able to have kids. Otherwise, have to deal with severe overpopulation.